The best of Hacker News - July 11, 2025

1.
Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity

562 points

2.
Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale

368 points

3.
Flix – A powerful effect-oriented programming language

247 points

4.
What is Realtalk’s relationship to AI? (2024)

243 points

5.
Graphical Linear Algebra

216 points

6.
FOKS: Federated Open Key Service

199 points

7.
Show HN: Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet

193 points

8.
Red Hat Technical Writing Style Guide

182 points

9.
Underwater turbine spinning for 6 years off Scotland's coast is a breakthrough

140 points

10.
Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels

140 points

11.
The ChompSaw: A Benchtop Power Tool That's Safe for Kids to Use

136 points

12.
Orwell Diaries 1938-1942

98 points

13.
Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"

73 points

14.
Batch Mode in the Gemini API: Process More for Less

73 points

15.
Australia is introducing age checks for search engines like Google

64 points

16.
eBPF: Connecting with Container Runtimes

46 points

17.
Apple-1 Computer, handmade by Jobs and Woz [video]

38 points

18.
Series of posts on HTTP status codes (2018)

20 points

19.
Show HN: Interactive pinout for the Raspberry Pi Pico 2

9 points

20.
Researchers create 3D interactive digital room from simple video

8 points

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